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Politicians are out of touch with the public on abortion

Gordon Macdonald

Support for abortion has become a mark of orthodoxy among the political elite. But politicians, especially in Scotland, are seriously out of touch with the general public on this matter, as a new opinion poll has revealed this week. With abortion devolved to the Scottish parliament since last year, MSPs now have power to address this issue.

There have been 500,000 abortions in Scotland since 1967 and 8.7 million UK-wide. The prime minister said this week that the UK faced a social care crisis. In ten years there will be two million more over-75s. The same number of abortions will have occurred.

Because we kill so many of our children, our ageing population is becoming unsustainable. In Scotland, the campaign group Don’t Stop A Beating…

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